What makes a film scary for you?

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Reason why I ask this is because when Im watching a "scary" film, it takes a certain kind of scare to scare me. If that makes sense.

For eg, zombies dont do it for me - not one bit...lol

But realistic horror like Hostel really freaks me out. It doesnt sound too farfetched for that kind of stuff to happen, and thats why I hate it.

So what makes a film scary for you lot then? :)

BTW, just watched hostel 2 and was very disapointed. Thought it was a bit crap actually - anyone else think that?
 
The only film thats made me cringe was Saw 3 , other than that , zombies are just funny :P
 
Might be worth asking to get this moved to box office

What scares me is the atmospheric thrillers like Hallowe'en and the Omen. Maybe even include The Blair Witch up until it ended. By today's standards they are not big blockbusters. Unlike todays movies like Saw and Hostel, it didn't rely on cheap special effects to compensate for it's lack of scary moments. I'd say that films like Hostel and Saw aren't so much Horror's but more shockers
 
Loki said:
Might be worth asking to get this moved to box office

What scares me is the atmospheric thrillers like Hallowe'en and the Omen. Maybe even include The Blair Witch up until it ended. By today's standards they are not big blockbusters. Unlike todays movies like Saw and Hostel, it didn't rely on cheap special effects to compensate for it's lack of scary moments. I'd say that films like Hostel and Saw aren't so much Horror's but more shockers
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Agreed.

Today's "scary" films are just trying to gross you out.
 
hard to say for me, i can sit through horror films or games and not even flinch
guess it depends on the atmosphere, sound usually being a big part of that
 
Saw (1) was very good though , the atmosphere and layout and technique was very thought out, and with the human in the middle of the room was an awesome idea :)

& think this is okay in the General Section as i think its a general question :P
 
28 days later for me and it was because of the realism not only in the way the actors were and stuff but the location, I'd watch the film and be like "wow I hung out there" or "I go shopping there" etc its that kinda stuff that makes the film relevant to you and so makes it more scary :eek:
 
fieldy said:
28 days later for me and it was because of the realism not only in the way the actors were and stuff but the location, I'd watch the film and be like "wow I hung out there" or "I go shopping there" etc its that kinda stuff that makes the film relevant to you and so makes it more scary :eek:
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I was nervous of the Blackwall Tunnel for weeks after seeing that film :D.
 
The scary ones are those that let your imagination decide what it is thats killing everything. They get boring once you've actually seen the "scary monster/guy"
 
Anim said:
The scary ones are those that let your imagination decide what it is thats killing everything. They get boring once you've actually seen the "scary monster/guy"
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I still to this day remember watching The Thing for the first time, and not being able to look the same at my dog after.
 
Good question OP. I would have to say I am not that easily scared in respect to movies but I was genuinely scared and nervous, sweating I would say during the remake of Dawn of the dead. I love zombie films and having the zombies with the ability to run really freaks me out. Same applies to 28 days later. Its the running aspect of it, you cant or would find it hard to escape from them.

The original zombie flicks with slow cumbersome brain eaters would be easy to get rid of as you can jut jog past them and hit 'em with baseball bats etc. Easy. The fast running ones. Now thats a different ballgame.
 
Anim said:
The scary ones are those that let your imagination decide what it is thats killing everything. They get boring once you've actually seen the "scary monster/guy"
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Agree. A film needs to 'draw me in' for it to have an effect on me, otherwise it's just yawn!

I remember watching the Blair witch project when it first came out, i didnt know anything about the film, only rumers of this 'home vid' that had been put out.
Saw it on my own, in the dark and was genuinlely shocked. I remember at the end thinking "WTF, is this realy real?"

Event horizon does it for me though. love the film but can't whatch it in the dark.
 
Droolinggimp said:
Good question OP. I would have to say I am not that easily scared in respect to movies but I was genuinely scared and nervous, sweating I would say during the remake of Dawn of the dead. I love zombie films and having the zombies with the ability to run really freaks me out. Same applies to 28 days later. Its the running aspect of it, you cant or would find it hard to escape from them.

The original zombie flicks with slow cumbersome brain eaters would be easy to get rid of as you can jut jog past them and hit 'em with baseball bats etc. Easy. The fast running ones. Now thats a different ballgame.
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Don't worry.... zombies aren't actualy real ;)
 
zombies dont scare me, nor do serial killer sort of movies like scream or something like friday the 13th, tbh the only sort of films that scare me are supernatural/ghost/phycological films, things like the shining, and i was actually scared by the remake of the amytilville horror and the grudge.
 
I find that not seeing the villian of the piece for a good part of the film is more likely to be interesting/scary than immediately knowing who it is, the imagination is a very powerful tool. That said there are times when the film reveals the killer/terror and it is a massive disappointment (c.v. Cabin Fever, Jeepers Creepers). I also prefer a film to be vaguely plausible, it doesn't really matter whether it is realistic because I'm happy to take a film on its own terms but it does have to work that little bit harder at creating a believeable environment/atmosphere if it is set in fantasy.
 
Films which make you use your imagination is the key to a great horror film, it means that it's truely tapped into and engaged you. This can be done in numerous ways, such as a unknown killer, hinting at violence etc. Keeping a film relative to it's audience by using the characters and situation to reflect on a current issue, or by locating it in a common place are also two other ways of making a film scary.
 
suspence makes a film scary. More the build up of anticipation that something will happen but as it keeps building up it gets worse. Especially older films with simple sounds that compliment it like halloween.
 
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